CYP2W1

CYP2W1
Identifiers
Aliases CYP2W1
External IDs MGI: 3616076 HomoloGene: 69239 GeneCards: CYP2W1
Orthologs
Species Human Mouse
Entrez

54905

545817

Ensembl

ENSG00000073067

ENSMUSG00000029541

UniProt

Q8TAV3

E9Q816

RefSeq (mRNA)

NM_017781

NM_001160265

RefSeq (protein)

NP_060251.2

NP_001153737.1

Location (UCSC) Chr 7: 0.98 – 0.99 Mb Chr 5: 139.35 – 139.36 Mb
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CYP2W1 (cytochrome P450, family 2, subfamily W, polypeptide 1) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the CYP2W1 gene.[3]

This gene encodes a member of the cytochrome P450 superfamily of enzymes. The cytochrome P450 proteins are monooxygenases which catalyze many reactions involved in drug metabolism and synthesis of cholesterol, steroids and other lipids.[4] CYP2W1 is an interesting enzyme since it is mainly expressed in tumors and not in normal human tissue.

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